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| Last updated on May 22, 2008 |
The Legal Advocacy & Resource Center ("LARC") operates a free legal hotline in support of its mission to "assist needy individuals who perceive they have a legal problem by providing quality legal information and advocacy, and by making referrals to legal and social service agencies."
Description:
LARC, a non-profit organization, operates a legal hotline which is staffed by attorneys, paralegals and volunteers. Massachusetts residents with a wide range of legal problems can telephone the hotline and receive legal counseling, referrals to free legal services and/or have an intake screening for a legal services program completed. Because in most cases there is no free lawyer available, and most of the callers are unable to afford to hire an attorney, the LARC hotline is often the only place that a caller can turn to obtain concrete legal advice on such issues as how to stop an eviction; how to get bad housing conditions fixed; how to file for bankruptcy; how to obtain welfare or social security benefits; or how to bring a case in small claims court. Most of the clients that LARC assists are low-income.
History:
The Legal Advocacy & Resource Center was created in 1983 as a response to a 1977 study of the delivery of legal services to the poor in Massachusetts. The study recommended that a "legal services hotline" be established to help poor individuals navigate the maze of legal and social service programs "through which - as the result of one call - every client seeking legal services would be referred to a legally trained person." Since 1983 LARC has operated a free legal hotline in support of its mission to help Massachusetts residents with legal problems by providing quality legal information and advice, and by making referrals to legal and social service agencies.
Contact people:
Office fax number: 617/371-1188; NOTE: We cannot reply to legal questions by email, and hotline services are NOT provided via the above numbers.
Address:
Web Site: http://www.larcma.org
Directions:
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Nearest Metro/Subway Stop: North Station - green or orange line,
Walk distance (in minutes): 2
For maps or information, please see http://www.mbta.com |
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